I saw an article regarding this release in the local paper today. Mark Twain spent a few years on the Comstock in Virginia City, Nevada just a short drive into the mountains to the east of Reno. The newspaper article's author pointed out this life-size replica of Twain that sits in the Mark Twain Bookstore up in Virginia city is often mistaken for Albert Einstein.
I don't doubt the article because our schools have been doing such a poor job of educating kids for the last couple decades since we've given up local control and instituted national standards. This month we had the opportunity to elect a veteran teacher that wanted to bring control closer to home and away from those that have mucked it all up for the last few decades. But, Nevada (with the help of teacher's union of all things) re-elected Harry Reid so he'll stay home in DC while here in Nevada we've got 6 more years of keeping our kids too stupid to notice that the the life-size doll of an old man sitting in the Mark Twain Bookstore in Virginia City might actually be a life-size doll of Mark Twain.
I don't doubt the article because our schools have been doing such a poor job of educating kids for the last couple decades since we've given up local control and instituted national standards. This month we had the opportunity to elect a veteran teacher that wanted to bring control closer to home and away from those that have mucked it all up for the last few decades. But, Nevada (with the help of teacher's union of all things) re-elected Harry Reid so he'll stay home in DC while here in Nevada we've got 6 more years of keeping our kids too stupid to notice that the the life-size doll of an old man sitting in the Mark Twain Bookstore in Virginia City might actually be a life-size doll of Mark Twain.
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